MedicalJobsAustralia.com AHP1 Occupational Therapist 0.8FTE - Ashton House

Job no: 952903

Work type: Part time

Located in: Adelaide Metro Northern

Categories: Allied and Scientific Health, Mental Health

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - Forensic Mental Health, Ashton House - OAKDEN SA 5086

Salary: $73,710 - $89,981 p.a. (pro rata) plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits - AHP1

Temporary Part-Time - 30 hours per week, up to 24 months

About the Role

Forensic mental health is one of the most specialised and rewarding areas of Occupational Therapy practice. If you're an early-career OT ready to build deep clinical expertise alongside an experienced multidisciplinary team, Ashton House within the Division of Forensic Mental Health, NALHN, offers a fantastic opporunity.

Your Role at Ashton House

Working 0.8FTE, you will deliver occupational therapy assessment and rehabilitation interventions to consumers within Ashton House - a step-down rehabilitation service within Forensic Mental Health. This setting sits at the intersection of mental health, justice, and community reintegration. Your core responsibilities will include:

Conducting occupational therapy assessments and developing goal-directed intervention plans for forensic mental health consumers

Delivering individual and group-based therapeutic programs focused on functional recovery and community participation

Collaborating within a multidisciplinary team including psychiatry, nursing, psychology, and social work

Contributing to discharge planning and supported transition pathways for consumers returning to community settings

What You'll Bring

Foundational understanding of mental health recovery frameworks and person-centred practice

Effective communication skills for working with consumers, carers, and clinical colleagues

Capacity to work within a structured, security-conscious environment with professionalism and care

Commitment to culturally safe and inclusive practice, consistent with SA Health values

Ability to manage competing priorities across a complex caseload with appropriate supervision support To be eligible for this position, you must have an appropriate degree of equivalent qualification which entitles registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia

About You

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

About Us

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN)



is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia, and one of the largest employers in northern Adelaide.

NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality healthcare services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care, as well as primary health care services with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management.

With a commitment for ongoing upgrades to our facilities and the introduction of new services, our priority is delivering exceptional health and wellbeing services that enhance the quality of life for our community.

Our 300-plus Allied Health professionals play an integral role in multidisciplinary teams delivering outstanding care to patients across our acute, subacute and hospital avoidance services.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

At NALHN, we have a strong commitment to providing a clinically interesting professional experience, with structured and supportive education and professional development, and career progression pathways.

Some feedback from current employees about working as Allied Health Professionals in NALHN includes:

"My favourite part about working in NALHN is the close working relationships we have across Allied Health to optimise patient care."

"I feel like I'm part of a growing and developing service."

"I love the great team dynamic and the culture of learning and support."

Our Local Health Network Sites and Services:

NALHN provides a range of hospital (inpatient), outpatient, community and home-based services across multiple sites in Adelaide's north and north-eastern suburbs, including Aboriginal health, mental health, and GP services.

Lyell McEwin Hospital-the major hospital in northern Adelaide for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetric, paediatrics and outpatient services.

Modbury Hospital-a general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation,



geriatric and palliative care.

Mental Health Services-adult and older persons mental health services and statewide forensic mental health services, across hospital and community settings.

Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Primary Health Care Services-provides culturally responsive primary healthcare services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in-hospital and across four community sites.

Primary Health Care Services-including GP Plus sites at Elizabeth, Modbury and Gilles Plains.

Benefits of working at NALHN:

From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you'll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Incremental wage increases in-line with the Allied Health Professionals, Assistants and Psychologists Enterprise Agreement 2025

Access to experienced clinicians across a broad range of expertise, who are supportive of collegial sharing of skills and knowledge in different therapies and client presentations.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

In addition to this, other advantages of working as an Occupational Therapist in NALHN include:

professional development opportunities. We have a well-established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-quality, targeted in-house training, and under the current enterprise agreement staff are also eligible for a Professional Development Allowance and entitled to claim reimbursement of eligible professional development expenses to allow you to continue to build upon your professional foundations opportunities to participate in research. NALHN have an Allied Health Research Chair, who is able to work with clinicians and teams to support clinical research regular clinical supervision, allowing you to receive individualised support, learning and development to help you achieve your career goals

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